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Avatars of the word : from papyrus to cyberspace / James J. O'Donnell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Donnell, James J., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication and technology--History.
- Communication and technology.
- Written communication--History.
- Written communication.
- Cyberspace.
- Avatars (Virtual reality).
- Communications Media--history.
- Writing--history.
- Internet.
- Medical Subjects:
- Communications Media--history.
- Writing--history.
- Internet.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 210 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: The scholar in his study
- Phaedrus: hearing Socrates, reading Plato
- From the Alexandrian Library to the virtual library and beyond
- Hyperlink: The instability of the text
- From the Codex page to the homepage
- Hyperlink: The shrine of nonlinear reading
- The persistence of the old and the pragmatics of the new
- Hyperlink: Who owns that idea?
- The ancients and the moderns: the classics and western civilizations
- Augustine today: linear narratives and multiple pathways
- The new liberal arts: teaching in the postmodern world
- Hyperlink: How does teaching work?
- What becomes of universities? (For professors only)
- Cassiodorus: Or, the life of the mind in cyberspace.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674001947
- 067400194X
- 9780674055452
- 0674055454
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb02128 hdl
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